At
night, things get a lot more unpredictable. A stranger can become a friend, you
suddenly become intimate with a woman or a man whose name you will never find
out, while darkness also allows you to conceal your true identity - even become
someone else.

Inspiration
for this album emanates from the fascination towards the intensity of what
nightlife has to offer ; euphoria and melancholy, spotlights or incognito,
sexual contact or lonely voyeurism...Francois X entertains the listener with playful ambiguïty and
unsettling, yet sensual atmospheres. Sometimes dirty, sometimes just quite
naively elegant, the double-edged demeanor on this album fittingly concludes
the Blade-Runner’s replicants-inspired triptych with his two previous EPs on
DEMENT3D. X had envisioned Rachael as the last reference to the movie. The
enigmatic, smart but unpredictibale woman. Exactly the kind of muse an artist
seeks.

In
the intimacy of his studio, he slowly reached a state of flux, where creation
and narration blends in naturally. Just like when the dancers let go, X’s mind
was pouring ideas. Quite a surprising variety of genres and references featured
on this album, bridging a lot of influences and different compositions together
- yet held together by a cinematic, sexual tension and blurry atmosphere. Much
like his DJsets, you have to imagine Francois X running an esoteric ceremony of
sexual wizardry and card-shuffling where bodies slowly moisten and yield to
abandonment.